Talent Show

Our primary had a talent show on Wednesday. Madalyn and Morgan sang "I can't tie my shoes Blues" they also displayed pictures they had colored, watches and necklaces they had made. It turned out to be a nice Talent Show.

The past 2 weeks have been really busy for us, I don't have any pictures to show what we have been doing but life has been crazy. These are a few: working in Madalyn's class room, Organizing the Talent show, R.S. birthday dinner, Sarah's state basketball tournament, Morgan's preschool field trip, grandma's 80th birthday party, and learning how to coupon shop takes any extra time I find. I have had some great deals, but I spend a lot of time during the day and when the kids go to bed finding the great deals.

COUPONS

I have been wanting to find out how so many women get so much for such a small amount of money. I found out there was going to be a sale on fruit snacks,fruit roll-ups, gushers, and diapers last night so I got busy finding extra coupons to go with the sale. I woke up early and as soon as Madalyn got on the bus at 7:15 the girls and I left. I use coupons a lot and it helps out but this is my first big SAVINGS!!
40 boxes of fruit snacks
7 packs of gum
5 king size ch. bars
1 box of cereal
total =14.21 I figure it' s .30 cents a box for the fruit snacks
I hit two different stores for the diaper sale. I figure with the baby coming soon I better start stocking up . I figure I spent 6.00 on each pack of Jumbo. I bought a few more things on sale, but these were my big Savings. I figured I saved about $200 today. A lot of people say you can't take kids with you when you do this kind of shopping, but today I had no choice. They surprised me and did well. Morgan loved seeing all the box tops she gets to cut off for Madie's school. I did treat them to McDonald's after we got done.

Life around our house has not been very exciting. We have had sick kids for a few weeks now, (with a head colds). Morgan got it first, it only lasted a few days for her. Then Natalie got it 2 weeks ago and is still battling it. The poor thing her nose runs all day long, her face is all red from all the wiping. As you can see in this pictures her skin has seen better days. She looked so cute with her baby.

The weather is getting nicer, we spend 2 hours outside today. I'm looking forward to the warmer weather, My kids are so much happier when they can play outside. Garrett got the tether ball pole up this week for the kids to play with. We also spent sometime working in the garden, I guess I should say Garrett did most of the work. With my growing belly it's getting harder to bend over. We planted some more raspberries.

I feel like my belly has really gotten a lot bigger the last month. I have a bad pinched nerve on the left side of my lower back it's getting really painful. By the end of the day I'm in so much pain. My left leg goes numb a lot. I wish June was closer.

In a month we are going to get to go visit some of Garrett's brothers and sisters, we live close to all of my family but most of Garrett's family live far away. My kids can't wait, they love seeing their cousins. Mary is also coming home for a month and the kids can't wait to see Grandma. It's been strange for them not to be able to drive over anytime they want and visit. Plus they miss the grandma candy drawer, and the fun things at her house.

Surprise....

Today was our ultra sound again..........This baby very stubborn. It wants it to be a Surprise!!!! So I guess it's going to win this fight. The baby legs were apart this time but the cord was in the way so we could not tell. I went out and bought a Dr. Pepper so I could have some caffeine in my system, I'm not a big pop drinker so it was hard for me to get that down. Still no Luck. What the heck I have never known of a person that has had 2 ultra sounds and still can't find out what they are having. When we got home the girls all came running up and wanted to know what it was and I had to say "the baby still wants to play hide n seek with you guys and we are going to have to wait until the baby born to find out". This is what we told them after the first time and they thought that it was cute. This time no one thought it was cute. The worst part is now I have to come up with both a girls name and a boys name & I would really like to go shopping for this baby.

Be Mine

Since Valentines Day this year was on Sunday the girls and I decided to do something special for Garrett on Saturday. He work all day Friday and half a day on Saturday, that gave us lots of time to get things ready before he came home. The kids loved decorating for the dinner. We made name tags, lighted candles, and put the valentines decorations on the table.

Morgan and Natalie were the servers, Madalyn played music on her violin that she got for Christmas.

Garrett was really surprised and excited for a date with his 3 girls.

We decorated the garage door for him. The kids thought that was the greatest!!! Garrett and I got each other a new camcorder for Valentines Day, our other one is 10 years old and has been giving us lot of trouble the past year. We needed a new one before the baby comes.

Baby Jenks?????

Today was our ultrasound appointment, we have some good news. The Baby is Healthy!!! That is all we can tell you right now. We still don't know what we are having. The baby's legs were together, we tried everything to get the little one to open them. Nothing worked.
Last night I had a very hard time sleeping, I was just so excited and very nervous to find out what we are having. I felt like it was Christmas eve, just waiting for morning to come. This morning I just wanted to stay busy so time would pass. Our appointment time was at 1:45, just waiting in the waiting room I was so nervous. I was about to cry even before we got back there. They called us back and they asked us if we wanted to know what we were having I told them yes, so she looked and said it's legs are together we will come back and see. She keep going back and you could not see anything. After she had all the measurements she had me go to the bathroom and then looked and nothing had changed, so they had me lay on my side for 10 minutes then tried again. No luck. By this time I'm starting to tear up. She then said lets have you get up and walk & jump around. Then we checked and still nothing new, legs still very tight together. I was now crying. I think my Dr. knew how upset I was so he told me to come in next Wednesday and they would try again. So now I have to wait another week and pray we can tell at the visit.

Tie my shoes

On Thursday Madalyn came home from school and really wanted to learn how to tie her shoes. She has been trying to learn for a little while now. But the problem with her was she only wanted to be shown how to do it once and then thought she could figure it out on her own. When she would start to make a mistake we would try and help her and she would say "I know how to do it mom". She is very stubborn sometimes. That must come from Garrett's side :)

It didn't take very long, I do think that she had to humble herself and realized she did need help. She caught on and NOW SHE CAN TIE HER OWN SHOES.

This is her the next morning getting ready for school, it will be really nice. One less thing Mom has to do in the mornings.

Oh no were caught......

The other day I was in my room working on primary stuff and I realized that I had not heard the girls for awhile. You know things are not good when all of the sudden it is really quite. I walk out and found Morgan putting sticker all over Natalie. I ran back to my room before they saw me, grabbed the camera, went back and said "Morgan what are you doing" It totally scared her. This was the picture I got, PRICELESS caught in the act.

Natalie was a good sport for letting Morgan cover her in stickers.

The end result !!!!

Mesa Carnival

On Saturday was the Mesa Carnival, every year the Mesa CPT puts on a Carnival for everyone to attend. Madalyn was excited to tell everyone that it was at her school. This helps make money for the school year for the extras that the CPT has to pay for. They had a great turn out this year and made a great amount of money for the kids.

The girls enjoyed the face painting. Madalyn is not in that many pictures, she was to busy with her friends.

I think Natalie's favorite was the cake walk. She did that over and over until she won. Then once her cupcake was gone she wanted to go back to win another one. By the time the night was over she had 2 cupcakes and two bags of cotton candy. She was on a sugar high.

They had some great toys to play on this year, they also had some fun games of the kids to play.

Sticky hands from all the sweets. I was assigned to run one of the booths for 2 hours so Garrett took the kids around to all the fun. He did come back and trade me off for a little while so I could see the kids having fun. What a fun night for the family.

Boy or Girl???

We will soon be finding out what we are having. I can't wait!!! February 10th is our ultrasound appointment, (next wednesday) I will be 20 weeks and 4 days at that time.

This is me at 19 weeks, half way done. The girls wanted to be in the picture with the baby. So what do you think a Boy or Girl????